Re: [uml-devel] [patch] uml network problem fix.

[Jeff D. <jd...@ad...>]

kr...@by... said:
> Further investigations shows that the uml network driver irq handler
> isn't called for some reason.  Maybe because the socket fifo already
> is full and only _new_ data arriving is signaled via SIGIO?

Hmmm.  There's no atomic open-and-setup-sigio operation, so there's an
inherent race there.

> I've cured the issue with the one-liner patch below, which simply
> receives any pending packets after up'ing the interface.  I'm not sure
> if it is the right way to fix that through. 

It seems reasonable at first glance.

				Jeff